GERMANY: Those Who Are Luckier

Delegates to the Prussian Diet argued hotly over a local bill last
week. Came a, terrific crash overhead, a greenish yellow streak of
flame ran down the wall behind the president's chair. The lightning,
which had struck the roof, injured no one.

While lightning struck the
Prussian Diet, man-made thunder roared and echoed in the German
Reichstag across the way. Most of the thunder came from bulky, rumbling
Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Germany's quick-brained, bullet-headed Foreign Minister. Almost completely recovered from a long illness (TIME,
July 9, 1928 et...